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Artist
Ted Hearne
12+ albums
contemporary classicalexperimentalelectronicClassicalcomposer
about
Composer, singer, bandleader and recording artist TED HEARNE (b.1982, Chicago) draws on a wide breadth of influences ranging across music's full terrain, to create intense, personal and multi-dimensional works. The New York Times has praised Mr. Hearne for his "tough edge and wildness of spirit," and "topical, politically sharp-edged works." Pitchfork called Hearne's work "some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory -- from any genre," and Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that Hearne's music "holds up as a complex mirror image of an information-saturated, mass-surveillance world, and remains staggering in its impact." Hearne's Sound From the Bench, a cantata for choir, electric guitars and drums setting texts from U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments and inspired by the idea of corporate personhood, was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. Hearne most recently collaborated with poet Saul Williams and director Patricia McGregor to create Place, a fiery meditation on the topic of gentrification and displacement, through music. Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Barbican Centre and Beth Morrison Projects, and scored for 18 instrumentalists and 6 vocalists, Place was premiered to critical acclaim in October 2018 in Fall 2018 the BAM Next Wave Festival. “‘Place’ takes shape in songs that emerge like a graffiti mural as repetitive gestures gradually bloom into vibrant, brash statements in high-volume color. The six singers bring with them
top songs
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5562Place, Pt. 1: No. 1, Balloons
2613By-By Huey
1824Place, Pt. 1: No. 2, Boundary
1785Place, Pt. 1: No. 3, Interview
1616Place, Pt. 2 "Saul Williams": No. 10, This Land Was Worth Every War
1597Place, Pt. 1: No. 4, Maps (Appropriation)
1368Snowball
1219Place, Pt. 2: No. 7, Is It OK to Say?
12110Place, Pt. 1: No. 5, Breakup Letter
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